HMS Benbow (1913) British Battleship

HMS Benbow (1913)

HMS Benbow was an Iron Duke-Class battleship laid down on May 1912 and launched in November 1913. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 7 October 1914.

As the Flag Ship of the Forth Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet, HMS Benbow took part in the Battle of Jutland. She fired fired forty 13.5-inch armour-piercing, capped shells and sixty 6-inch rounds during the battle, claiming hits on attacking German torpedo boats.

After the end of the war in 1918, Benbow and the rest of the 4th Squadron were reassigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. There, she took part in operations in the Black Sea in support of White Russians in the Russian Civil War until mid-1920, when the Mediterranean Fleet began supporting Greek forces during the Greco-Turkish War. In 1926, Benbow was reassigned to the Atlantic Fleet. She was decommissioned in 1929, placed on the sale list in September 1930, and sold for scrap the following year.

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